Hollywood actress Felicity Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 so her daughter could participate in a cheating scheme to boost her SAT score.

Huffman is an outspoken advocate for women’s rights and pay equality on social media.

“Every woman and girl has the right and deserves the opportunity to pursue their dreams and live up to their fullest potential without the barrier of poverty,” she tweeted just days before making the $15,000 payment.

Hollywood actress Felicity Huffman was charged Tuesday with two counts of fraud, allegedly paying a bribe so her daughter could participate in a college entrance exam cheating scheme to fraudulently boost her SAT score.

“These parents are a catalog of wealth and privilege,” Lelling said Tuesday. “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud.”

A court affidavit details how Huffman and her husband, actor William H. Macy, paid $15,000 to a California-based charity that arranged for their older daughter to take her SAT in a testing center that would “secretly correct her answers afterwards.” Their daughter received a score 400 points over what she received in her preliminary SAT.

Huffman won an Emmy in 2005 for her work playing a leading role on “Desperate Housewives.”

Huffman and Macy made the payment on Feb. 27, 2018, which was disguised as a donation that would allow the charity to “move forward with our plans to provide educational and self-enrichment programs to disadvantaged youth.”

One week before she cut the check to fraudulently boost her older daughter’s SAT score, Huffman tweeted that “every woman and girl has the right and deserves the opportunity to pursue their dreams and live up to their fullest potential without the barrier of poverty.”

Huffman issued multiple tweets in 2018 advocating for women’s rights and pay equality. In May she tweeted that she was “moved” by the One Campaign’s #PovertyIsSexist movement, with the accompanying picture stating “none of us are equal until all of us are equal.”

Did you know the average woman has to work an extra 4 months to make as much money as a man in a year? That's what #EqualPayDay is all about. The gap is even worse for women of color. Fight for what is right and call your local reps to urge them to support equal pay legislation! pic.twitter.com/ICIk3nYI8h

The affidavit states that Huffman began making plans in November to put down another $15,000 so her younger daughter could also participate in the cheating scheme, but she ultimately decided not to pull the trigger for her younger daughter, who Huffman said is inspired to go into politics because of Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris.

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